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Rose Bowl as a playoff quarterfinal? Not!

June 25, 2009 | 11:17
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Cry if you want, Mountain West Conference, but college football's Bowl Championship Series isn't going away anytime soon.

That seemed to be the message from the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee after a teleconference this week. It scuttled the Mountain West's proposal for an eight-team playoff, with committee Chairman David Frohnmayer issuing a statement afterward that said there was "no overall support" for the plan outside the MWC.

Frohnmayer, the outgoing University of Oregon president, said this latest attempt at changing college football's postseason carried familiar elements of proposals -- even President Obama wants a playoff -- that failed in the past.

"In the last six years, I've read pundits, heard the pronouncements of broadcasters and collected several cubic feet of e-mail printouts from advocates of an NFL-style playoff system," he said in his statement. "Even those that go beyond sound bite certitude share two intertwined and fatal deficiencies: they disrespect our academic calendars and they utterly lack a business plan."